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head, and body movements underlying rapid orientation towards
external objects. The results from our visual stimulation paradigm
illustrate reproducible BOLD responses in the superficial laminae
of the SC. Therefore, we are now in a position to begin fMRI
and neurophysiologic studies of sensory integration with tactile
and/or non-tactile sensory stimuli.
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Fuqiang Xu (Wuhan Institute of Physics and Math-
ematics, Wuhan, China) for help during preliminary stages of
olfactory bulb imaging. We appreciate valuable inputs from Dr.
Lawrence B. Cohen (Yale University) and his laboratory mem-
bers (i.e., Drs. Ryota Homma and Efstratios Kosmidis) regarding
the design of the olfactometer. We are grateful to Alyssa Siefert
(a summer internship student from Carnegie Mellon University)
and Scott McIntyre (an MRRC engineer) for the initial design of
the visual stimulation device. We are also extremely appreciative
of other MRRC/QNMR engineers and staff (i.e., Terry Nixon,
Peter Brown, Mark Abildgaard, Bei Wang) for assistance in other
parts of our experimental setup. This work was supported by per-
sonal grants to CJB (Dagmar Marshall's Fond, Frimodts Fond
and Oticon Fonden), the Hungarian Research Foundation grant
to PH (OTKA-T34122), and National Institutes of Health grants
to FH (R01 MH-067528, R01 DC-003710, P30 NS-52519).
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